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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 19h

22 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl spent the summer dreading her High Holy Day sermons. She also spent two weeks hiking 55 miles in the mountains, and loved every hard minute of it.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

23 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why did the genocide charge appear within days of October 7th, before Israel's ground invasion had really begun? Matti Friedman gives two reasons.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mansour Abbas says that in Arab society, some call him a Zionist traitor. In Jewish society, some call him a terror supporter, and there are petitions to disqualify Ra'am on exactly that claim.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What do MK Yizhak Pindrus think about settlers’ violence during Shabbat? Listen to the full interview with him on Unholy.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

24 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

25 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

26 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

27 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

28 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yonit and Jonathan summing up Benjamin Netanyahu's brief visit the US.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

29 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

30 days to E-DAY. At least once a day, we'll share a term related to Israeli elections. If you listen to Unholy regularly, you probably heard these before. Follow us to get the 101 on Israeli elections.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why is every Jewish holiday, memorial, or gathering conditioned on a political litmus test? Yonit's response to Mahmoud Khalil, Brad Lander and the hijacking of Yom Kippur

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just before the end of the interview, Ilana Dayan shared the reason that, after all, she's still optimistic. Share to inspire others 💪🏼

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The situation itself is extremely complicated." — Amos Harel, Israel's most well-regarded military analyst, with a sober, honest look at the film NAZA.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ilana Dayan, anchor of Uvda for three decades, reads the internet's years-long hatred of Anne Hathaway as a verdict on a woman who wanted success and couldn't hide it. Then she puts Hathaway beside Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“As far as I can tell and conversations I've had, that's not the IDF I know.“ - Israel's most prominent journalist Ilana Dayan reacts to the NAZA controversy

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ilana Dayan says the sanctity of human life is the most important asset Israelis have, and that October 7th was a fracture in their belief in the state that was meant to protect it.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, asked what to do with the long list of sins recited collectively through the holidays, says it is not there to convince anyone they are a terrible person. It is there because the tradition takes it as settled that people can change.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl sets out what the Jewish tradition asks of someone who has been refused. You apologise sincerely, you go back a second time, and Maimonides has you going back a third.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wake us up when October ends.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yoav Segalovich, a mainstream Zionist former police commander, joining Mansour Abbas's Islamist party as its number two. Ra'am's promise to its voters is crime, and Segalovich is the man who cut the murder rate.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yonit asks Gordon Brown what his engine is. He says he will not second-guess people who know their own situation from the inside, and puts the young people he works with the right way round: they inspire him. Listen to Gordon Brown on this week's Unholy Conversations.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Great Summer Q&A just dropped exclusively to Unholy's friends of the pod. Find it at unholy-podcast.com

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jonathan says Itamar Ben Gvir has become, after Netanyahu, the most recognizable Israeli politician abroad, and that every viral clip of him taunting activists undoes a piece of 78 years of advocacy for Israel. Yonit pushes back: he still does not speak for most Israeli voters.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Andy Nyman talks about the Jewishness of Fiddler on the Roof, and the universal experience it represents, which different cultures around the world relate to: being an immigrant.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"You're doing it. 100% that stays in." The day after the Bondi Beach attack, Andy Nyman and the cast asked Mel Brooks whether a joke mocking a rabbi should stay in The Producers. He didn't hesitate.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

640K young Israelis between the ages of 18-22 will be voting for the first time in October. Dror and Yael will be voting for the first time as well, and here's what matters to them, and how their generation sees the topics that will influence the voting patterns.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hadley Freeman isn’t impressed by Hollywood actors chanting “Free Palestine” — and she has a few things to say to them.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump has endorsed candidates in Hungary, Chile and Colombia this year, and told Fox News it is most appropriate for him to stay out of Israeli elections, though he may endorse someone. Yonit reads the endorsement as a card he plays only if Netanyahu gives him what he wants in Gaza.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Jonathan says the Islamic Republic of Britain line is a meme from the online right, not a phrase Netanyahu coined. Then he runs the reversal test: Pat Buchanan calling Capitol Hill Israeli occupied territory, and how quickly everyone worked out what that was.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Simon Sebag Montefiore sets the founding of Israel beside the foundings of Turkey and Pakistan: the same new religious nationalism, the same vast population transfers, the same ethnic war and anti-imperial rebellion, and one nation-builder at the front of each. Ataturk, Jinnah, Ben Gurion.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yonit puts the charge to Simon Sebag Montefiore straight: plenty of people in the region and outside it say Israel is an aberration that does not belong there. Listen to the full conversation on this week's Unholy Conversations episode.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Most mainstream pollsters put Netanyahu’s bloc at 51–52 seats — well short of the 61 needed for a coalition. But Shlomo Filber, a Netanyahu-aligned pollster whose surveys appear on Channel 14, sees Netanyahu cruising to 61. So who’s right?

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Greta used to fight for climate change, but just when its effects are making Europe burn, she wears a kaffia and chooses a different cause to support. This, according to guest co-host Hadley Freeman, is what grants her the Chutzpah of the Week award.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hadley Freeman, reading David Remnick's interview with a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, says the positions dissolved under questioning. She sets a reading requirement for anyone carrying the placard.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Shylock picture has the wrong person in it. Rubin says Jewish women made most of the transactions, working from the home, and that widows carried over substantial businesses. She names Licoricia of Winchester, who was known to Henry III.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Miri Rubin puts the numbers next to the imagery. A few thousand Jews in an England of 1.6 million, and a Jew who is everywhere in the legislation, the sermons and the art. She calls it a mismatch between the physical presence of ordinary Jews and the symbolic value of the Jew.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books & Music, shares what's the one thing people should know about Canadian Jews. Listen to the full conversation on Unholy Podcast.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Jonathan, who covered the Northern Ireland peace process, argues that a disarmament deal lives or dies on who moves first. Anshel Pfeffer takes the point and still finds something in Trump's Gaza announcement worth keeping

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Israeli coalition politics, explained. Anshel Pfeffer sets out the bind Netanyahu was in over Trump's Gaza announcement: he cannot say no to the American president, and he cannot tell his own base he has said yes. So he said nothing for close to five days.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Not a good Challah" - Heather Reisman does not think Canadian antisemitism has a single cause. She counts four, and says none of them would have done it alone.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

2026 Election in Israel: Why the Israeli public shifting right isn't necessarily a good thing for Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

hannel 12's bureau was attacked for the second time in a month. Yonit responds — to critics both inside and outside Israel. #unholypodcast #pressfreedom #channel12 #israel #journalism

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Rahm Emanuel sat down with Zohran Mamdani for 90 minutes. 75 of them were about being a mayor. This is the other 15. #unholypodcast #rahmemanuel #mamdani #israel #uspolitics

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

David Remnick spent countless hours with Gadi Eisenkot, and he shares his analysis of Eisenkot’s character in our latest episode.

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Unholy Podcast @unholypod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

David Remnick just profiled the man who might be Israel's next prime minister. His pitch isn't a platform — it's a personality. Full conversation is up now for early access to premium subscribers.

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